The press embargo holding back details from BioWare’s recent “Hands-On Days” in Europe and the US got lifted yesterday. This means we can expect tons of articles through out the rest of the weeks, showing new Star Wars: The old republic and today GamespotUK brings us a “Hands On” of the Jedi Consular and Multiplayer Flashpoints. 3t5x23
On our quest for artifacts, we encountered an illegal colony of Twi’leks–the Star Wars universe’s tentacle-headed humanoids (the same race to which Return of the Jedi’s Bib Fortuna belonged)–who were missing their village protector, a reclusive Twi’lek wilderness expert who had apparently discovered the most fallen Jedi, at which point our time with the consular’s initial quests ended.
Fortunately, that wasn’t the end of our system–a system which engages your entire party in a key conversation with story-critical characters. All players in a party can participate in dialogue, but only one player’s dialogue option can “win” each branch of dialogue with those characters–for instance, when confronted with a character who is withholding information from you and your buddies, you may choose to try to be threatening, while one of your friends might instead try to gently coax the information out of your . Exactly which character ends up speaking for the part at that juncture is determined by various modifiers (such as different characters’ ability scores, alignment, and other variables).
You can read the rest of the article at Gamespot
